Written by

Susan Wloszczyna
USA TODAY

Dustin Hoffman blames Maggie Smith for putting a damper on his love life.

It seems that Downton Abbey, the British TV upstairs-downstairs sensation presided over by Smith's imperious Dowager Countess, is keeping the actor's wife of 32 years otherwise engaged at night.

"It has cost me a more fruitful sex life," says Hoffman, 75, of the addictive PBS series that returns for a third season Jan. 6. "Lisa has it on her computer. We get to bed, I give her an amorous look, she kisses me on the cheek, turns over and watches Downton Abbey." ...